- Docente: Andrea Formigoni
- Credits: 6
- SSD: AGR/18
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Andrea Formigoni (Modulo 1) Giacomo Biagi (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Safety and Quality in Animal Production (cod. 8521)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student will be able to evaluate the animal requirements in the usual farm conditions and will be able to formulate appropriate rations to improve the efficiency of production and the nutritional value of milk and meat; he will be able to formulate appropriate rations with the reduction of nitrogen and phosphorus excretion and optimizing the use of different feedstuffs.
Course contents
Feeds utilization in monogastric and ruminant animal
Hay and silages production and preservaation
How to estimate the animal requirements and factors of variability
ration formulation in the farm
Readings/Bibliography
•Antongiovanni M. e Gualtieri M. : Nutrizione e Alimentazione animale, Edagricole
•McDonald-Edwards Greenhalgh: Nutrizione animale, Tecniche Nuove.
•Pacchioli M.T. : L’alimentazione della vacca da latte;
•NRC: Nutrient Requirements of 1) dairy cattle; 2) swine; 3) Horses 4) Beef…ecc
•Monetti G., Appunti suinicultura e bovinicultura.
•Mordenti et al., Manuale di alimentazione del suino. Edagricole.
Teaching methods
frontal and practival lessons also using personal computer
Assessment methods
Oral and practical examen; a ration formulation will be requested.
Office hours
See the website of Andrea Formigoni
See the website of Giacomo Biagi